iuVCR PCM audio problem / advc-100 use with iuvcr

[emigrant]

Purchased iuVCR to schedule captures from my dish through my Canopus ADVC100. Test captures are crashing when I try to encode them in Premiere with 1.2 Adobe MPEG Encoder (same thing with 1.3). Native Premiere captures are fine, ones from iuVCR kill it.

One of the things I notice is that I can set the audio to be PCM 44.1 16bit stereo (or 48) but the info tab shows it as 32 'actual' with pcm 44 underneath. Actual capture winds up being 32khz/16 bit. Not sure if that's my Premiere problem.

Also wondering which Video Devices settings I should use. I'm using AVC Compliant DV Device as the device and DV Interleaved Type-1 as my compressor. Not sure that's smart.

Goal is to capture .avi, edit the commercials out, and burn to DVD-R.

thanks fellas

[vhelp]

hi emigrant,

I don't use iuVCR ( I'm w98 )

But, I would recommned you saving out to AVI w/ Type 2 instead.
Type 2 is more compatible w/ todays apps.

Type 1 don't always open very well in some apps, i.e., vdub.

-vhelp

[emigrant]

how would I get a type 2 choice in iuVCR then? I don't see it. I see a converter for Canopus in our tools section here, but i'm not really capturing a Canopus DV file, it's just using that hardware/asic codec I think. Not sure about that last bit.

I don't have any DV choice aside from Type 1 Interleave, but I agree with you that it's one of my likely problems. I keep crashing Premiere, TMPGenc is ok with the files. I'm able to take the raw, unedited .avi and export it out to MPEG2, then convert the PCM .wav into .ac3 with besweet and multiplex the puppy back together into a nice .mpg ...

[Gazorgan]

I use IUVCR. Here's a hint on your problem. IUVCR is NOT ever, ever going to give you 44,100 HZ audio. It will give you 44,107 or 44,083 but never exactly what you want. Same thing for framerate, it's never ever 29.97, it will be 29.931 or 29.893.

I capture in Huffyuv and pcm audio (although MJPEG will work as well). When done, I open it in vdub, edit out the commercials, fix the audio and video bitrate and copy it to a new file(not necessary really, but this lets me reboot and not have to re-do all my edit points) and delete the old one. I now have a 2.97 fps video with 44.1 Audio and no commercials. I then apply filters as needed and encode or frameserve from there. Piece of cake. ( I once had 10 Iron chef episodes captured to my machine, that's 10 hours of initial MJPEG capture, with only 2 dropped frames total )